LWN.net Weekly Edition Archives [LWN.net]

Here is a simple (for now) archive listing for the LWN.net Weekly Edition. Note that this archive begins on June 6, 2002; please see the old site archives for editions prior to that date.

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All guest articles, indexed by author.
The Grumpy Editor series of software reviews.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 9, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Some views from Vision; Plugging into GCC; Accessibility in Linux systems
Security: Partial disclosure; New vulnerabilities in kernel, lighttpd, mplayer, php5,...
Kernel: 2.6.27 development statistics; Btrfs to the mainline?; Threaded interrupt handlers
Distributions: New Release Season; ALT Linux 4.1 Desktop, Fedora 9 Re-spins, openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2, PDK 0.9.6, Ubuntu 8.10 Beta, VC4.1
Development: Python 2.6 makes its debut, GNOME 2.25 release schedule, Theora 1.0 in testing, new versions of PulseAudio, SoftlabsAV, Midgard, rrdtool, Veusz, KDE, M2Crypto, phpDiplomacy, Albow, Mono, Claws Mail, Elisa, MMA, OpenSwing, TymeacSE, Pyjamas, PyYAML, PS/Tk, Pydev, cgit.
Press: Stallman vs. Clouds, Takeover attempt of ODF, Red Hat's HPC platform, KPackageKit developers interview, PocketMac for Blackberry review, Fedora and Ubuntu reviews, Mono 2 review, 11 Linux productivity tools, issues with 6 month distribution releases.
Announcements: New FSF High Priority list, Untangle Joins LF, call for Perl Grant Proposals, Top Ten Open Source Software Support Issues, OO.o Community Innovation Program winners, Ubuntu Server Survey, LCA Open Mobile cfp, SCALE call for non-profits, NLUUG and ELC-UU colocate, OpenSource World SF, IPTables video.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 2, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Ubuntu debuts its Upstream Report; openSUSE and the distribution of proprietary software; The CME Group sees a future with the Linux Foundation.
Security: ParanoidLinux: from fiction to reality; New vulnerabilities in firefox, kernel, phpmyadmin, thunderbird,...
Kernel: The state of the e1000e bug; Low-level tracing plumbing; Moving the -staging tree.
Distributions: The Optimistic Contributor Returns - Parted Magic Part 2; Fedora 10 beta, Mandriva Linux 2009 RC2, Omega 10 beta; Gentoo 2008.1 canceled; Improving boot time; EOL for Ubuntu 7.04; What's new in the next OpenSolaris release; FREEEEE; Debian-Edu Skolelinux Developer Gathering and User Conference
Development: LPC: What's happening with webcams, LAME ain't lame no more, Linux Sound API guide, new versions of PostgreSQL, SchemaSpy, BusyBox, Samba, OpenNMS, Vuurmuur, Zenoss, oVirt, lighttpd, notmm, python-graph, LyX, StorYBook, GnuCash, cairo, wxPython, GDCM, TakeNote, Task Coach, OpenCards, Opie, Firefox, NumPy.
Press: Zen and the Art of the Six-Figure Linux Job, Firebird Conf blogs, Red Hat's Q2 earnings, Jim Zemlin on Solaris, interviews with Seán Daly and Arjan van de Ven, GNU Toolchain blogs, Java Sound and Music Software 3, Carrier Grade Linux 5 spec, Cobbler review, Fedora's fifth anniversary.
Announcements: Homeless Service software, FLA in ten languages, GNU turns 25, GNOME 2.24 celebration, Open Source Census, Atheros releases ath5k HAL code, new Qt Extended, Italian Perl Workshop coverage, CeBIT cfp, PyCon cfp, Beijing Perl Workshop, POC2008, LinuxCon, VMworld Europe.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 25, 2008 (One big page)

Front: User manuals for free software; Booting Linux in five seconds; The Linux Plumbers Conference: a summary; Leo Laporte on open micro-blogging.
Security: Mobile phone or penetration tool?; New vulnerabilities in ed, firefox, mantis, phpmyadmin,...
Kernel: e1000e and the joy of development kernels; LPC: The future of Linux graphics; New kernels and old SELinux policies.
Distributions: LPC: Upstart 1.0 plans: manifesto for a new init; Information on the e1000e corruption bug; Foresight Kids Edition; openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1; Intrepid Alpha 6; Fedora 10 likely to slip again
Development: LPC: Linux audio: it's a mess, Django Debug Toolbar intro, CapPython launched, new versions of zc.async, LiquiBase, PostgreSQL, SQLite, ZMySQLDA, WSO2, Rockbox, GNOME, X.org, gEDA/gaf, OpenSkyNet, wxWidgets, Wine, Elisa, Firefox, Parrot, PyKerberos, libpng, libSpiff, Harbour.
Press: Google launches Android-based G1 phone, looking forward to LCA 2009, IBM's I.T. Standards Policy, Mozilla back tracks on Firefox EULA, Nokia Maemo to support 3G, Sybmian on mobile Linux, VMware's new VirtualCenter, Linux Foundation seeks individual members.
Announcements: CME Group joins Linux Foundation, EFF on Secret IP Enforcement, SGI further opens OpenGL license, Stanford professor on competing with free software, PyCon 2009 cfp, Demonstrating Open-Source Healthcare cfp, Web 2.0 SF cfp, Maker Faire RoboGames, PyCon Chigaco, Medsphere becomes a forge, KDE UserBase wiki.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 18, 2008 (One big page)

Front: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem; Firefox 3 EULA raises a ruckus; Review: Intellectual Property and Open Source
Security: OpenSSH and keystroke timings; New vulnerabilities in apache2, kernel, libxml2, pam_mount,...
Kernel: The 2008 Linux Kernel Summit
Distributions: The openSUSE Project's first board elections; new releases from ALT Linux, CentOS, Foresight, Lunar and Syllable
Development: Audacity gets new functionality via Google Summer of Code, Adding a signing key to RPM, DRI2 Protocol Draft, Building Debian with GCC 4.4, new versions of phpMyAdmin, Replybot, lutz, TurboGears, jack_capture, Chandler Server, opentaps, GNOME rc, GARNOME, CQRLOG, boox, Ember Elisa, Patchage, Dirac, OpenSwing, GIT, OpenOpt.
Press: Lindependence movement, End Runs Around Vista, Canonical funds desktop improvements, Lenovo stops Linux PC sales, management of open-source projects, KDE at CERN, Java sound and music apps, Linux Scalability in NUMA, Easystroke review, Linux course development grant.
Announcements: EFF on cell phone records, Openmoko used for education, Microsoft/Novell virtualization system, Sun's Project Kenai, Wyse and Novell's thin client, RailsConf EU report, SCALE cfp, SCSS cfp, OpenSAF Dev Days, Texas Unconf, O'Reilly's StartWithXML, Django videos.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 11, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Waiting for Rockbox 3.0 - again; Fedora distributes new keys; Kernel security, year to date.
Security: DR rootkit released under the GPL; New vulnerabilities in clamav, django, drupal, vlc,...
Kernel: Tightening the merge window rules; LIRC delurks; System calls and rootkits.
Distributions: What's up with the Intrepid Ibex; Debian/m68k meeting in Kiel; Fedora status; Ojuba Linux
Development: The OpenBTS project creates a stand-alone cell phone network, new versions of PulseAudio, ,pysqlite Net-SNMP, SkipoleMonitor, Django, Rails, web2py, Andutteye, python-graph, GPA, Libgcrypt, LedgerSMB, Wine, Elisa, Chandler, libquantum, eSpeak, aria2, ftputil, Emacs, DrJava, monotone, yap.
Press: Process monitor fights malware, The Fedora-Red Hat Crisis, Akademy coverage, OSCON presentations, A Question About the Novell-Microsoft Deal, slow Linux adoption by US schools, switching friends to Linux, Fabrizio Montesi interview, reviews of BugBase, karaoke PMP, Dell Mini 9, Java music apps, DR rootkit, NC State teaches FOSS.
Announcements: Red Hat acquires Qumranet, Transverse launches, ODBMS.ORG user reports, Python training in CO, MerbCamp San Diego, osbootcamp's Python video.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 4, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Feature removal sparks Git flamewar; DRI, BSD, and Linux; The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: UNIX Internals.
Security: Find SQL injection vulnerabilities with sqlmap; New vulnerabilities in ruby, slash, wordnet.
Kernel: Linux 3.0?; High-resolution timeouts; SCHED_FIFO and realtime throttling.
Distributions: Spinning Fedora; PLD Live 2.0 beta3; Webconverger update; Tin Hat Linux
Development: Cinelerra 4 arrives, KDE development changes, Google Chrome comic book, Kuchling on Python 2.6, new versions of Rivendell, rsplib, MySQL Admin Tools, SQLite, ClamAV, oVirt, Apache Lenya, Senayan 3, Jokosher, Openbravo POS, KDE, Elisa, VMPK, SABnzbdPlus, Roundup, GCC, ftputil, LEO.
Press: Strip mining of open source, CSI Stick grabs cell phone data, Intel acquires Opened Hand, interviews with Krita developers and Sam Ramji, reviews of Fermi Linux, iRex iLiad and Linux Twitter clients, Red Hat's Perl bug.
Announcements: GNU Project's 25th anniversary, Perl Summer of Code status, Perl Grant results, World Day Against Software Patents, Novell and SGI financials, MySQL Conf cfp, LF end user summit, MontaVista Vision 2008.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 28, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Django nears 1.0 milestone; Fedora, Red Hat, and distributor security; EFF continues fight for rights and freedoms.
Security: Firefox 3 SSL certificate warnings; New vulnerabilities in java, kernel, openoffice, tomcat,...
Kernel: AXFS; Sysfs and namespaces; TALPA moves forward.
Distributions: A new "contrib" repository for openSUSE; new released from AntiX, BLFS-6.3, Debian Live, Fedora Unity, Mandriva and openSUSE
Development: The SCons build tool reaches the 1.0 milestone, KOffice Summer of Code Ends, Mozilla Ubiquity, new versions of BusyBox, Samba, Pyro, mod_wsgi, Quixote, Tinyproxy, Ecasound, pyspread, YaMA, jCAE, yPlot, KDE, GNU Radio, Kicad, ESS, LedgerSMB, Wine, Elisa, Amuc, Pyrex, Emacs, Pydev, VXL, Bazaar.
Press: Linux photographic tools, A compilation of Linux text editors, SCO fined in Germany, interviews with Richard Hulse and Jim Zemlin, the kerneloops project, reviews of Acer Aspire One and Intel's Classmate PC.
Announcements: FSFE on KDE's switch to FLA, Essentia joins OSA, Aptana acquires Pydev, Linux growth rate slows in China, analysis of global Linux usage, Antonio Pizzigati prize nominations, OpenVAS vulnerability contest, Hackers 2 Hackers Conf cfp, IMF cfp, PacSec cfp, Novell Hack Week, Launchpad hosting service, Microsoft patents Page Up/Page Down.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 21, 2008 (One big page)

Front: One week of infrastructure issues; Standards, the kernel, and Postfix; Why the JMRI decision matters.
Security: Injunction lifted against MIT students; New vulnerabilities in amarok, postfix, yum-rhn-plugin
Kernel: Triggers: less busy busy-waiting; Regulating wireless devices; Tangled up in threads.
Distributions: In defense of Ubuntu; Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4AS U7; Intrepid Ibex Alpha-4; Debian news; Fedora issues; EOL for SUSE Linux 10.1
Development: Desktop talks from LinuxWorld 2008 Conference, new versions of libnetfilter_log, PorkBind, Ecasound, Mercator, Pogolyn, Elisa, CLAM, Task Coach, ETS, AgileTrack, Tail, dlib, Parrot, bbfreeze, HDF5 for Python, PyUseCase, TextTest, GIT, Mercurial.
Press: What Linux Will Look Like In 2012, Akademy mobile and embedded day, LinuxWorld coverage, IBM's Software Appliance Initiatives, interviews with Torvalds, Debian leaders, Corbet, Pyne and van Rossum, improving Firefox Find, greener IT departments, Dell's latest laptops.
Announcements: Lessig on the model train decision, MIT Students ungagged, Canonical joins LF, Perl Foundationon Jacobsen v. Katzer, SFLC Guide to GPL Compliance, Fedora scholarship program, Microsoft and Novell renew agreement, RailsConf report, PostgreSQL West cfp, FOSS.IN/2008, Linux Plumbers speakers, pyArkansas, Java Game Tome.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 14, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Chandler finally hits 1.0; GeekPAC; LinuxWorld: Moving the data center.
Security: Details of the DNS flaw revealed; New vulnerabilities in acroread, clamav, moodle, vim,...
Kernel: Kernel-based checkpoint and restart; Block layer discard requests; Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer.
Distributions: Distributions at LinuxWorld 2008; BLFS-6.3-rc3
Development: Audio Streaming over Bluetooth, Open OVF launched, new versions of MySQL Community Server, SQLite, OpenVAS, Jikes RVM, Catacomb, Genode OS Framework, Chandler, Task Coach, GNOME, LedgerSMB, pyglet, Elisa Media Center, klick, Mixxx, Anaphraseus, T-Rex, PHP, pycairo, eric.
Press: Open Source License enforceable by Federal Court, Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation and a rebuttal, LinuxWorld coverage, Akademy coverage, OIN's patent pool, interviews with Jason Hunter, Oleg Romaxa and Bob Sutor, Building an Open Source Community, reviews of Linux App Checker, Eclipse tools for mobile, VirtualBox, guide to kernel development.
Announcements: Open Health Tools gets code donation, OpenSAF 2.0, gOS 3 Gadgets, NI and LEGO robotics platform, OpenX 2.6 ad server, LinuxWorld awards, KDE e.V. general assembly report, LLVM Dev meeting report, Where 2.0 coverage, I/O Virtualization cfp, OpenSUSE Hack Week III, OLS videos.

LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 7, 2008 (One big page)

Front: Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: The Practice of Programming; Firefox to support Theora video; Building custom appliance distributions with rBuilder.
Security: OLS: Smack for embedded devices; New vulnerabilities in java, python, RealPlayer, trac,...
Kernel: Can user-space bugs be kernel regressions?; A kernel message catalog; The TALPA molehill.
Distributions: Looking forward to Fedora 10.
Development: The GNOME 2.24 module proposals, Django 1.0 schedule, liboggplay debut, new versions of Dirmngr, Web Submission and Review, ZK, matplotlib, GnuCash, SQL-Ledger, Player Project, pygame, a2jmidid, guitarix, pyspread, Pydev, Marathon.
Press: LinuxWorld's OSCON report, LTSP Hackfest coverage, OLS coverage, Intuit's Linux moves, Bruce Perens on Microsoft/Apache, open source in pre-schools, Jim Zemlin on LSB 4.0, Miguel de Icaza on Mono and Moonlight, Guido van Rossum interview, improving free software usability.
Announcements: EFF's Coders' Rights Project, EFF releases ISP testing tool, FSF demonstrates iPhone's GPLv3 incompatibility, IBM, Canonical, Novell, and Red Hat announced desktop collaboration, Git Magic, OSCON Proceedings, O'Reilly Tools of Change cfp, LF End User Summit, OO.o conf registration.

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